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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : postfix (MDKSA-2001:089)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 13902

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

Wietse Venema, the author of postfix, reported a vulnerability in the SMTP server where a remote attacker could execute a Denial of Service attack on it. The SMTP session log could grow to an unreasonable size and could possibly exhause the server's memory if no other limits were enforced.